VALKYRIE
Valkyrie details the daring plot and subsequent attempt of a group of Germans to infiltrate Adolf Hitler’s bunker and kill the fascist dictator in one fell swoop by blowing him up.
LONE SURVIVOR
A common theme among films based on true events is that they tend to be adapted from novels, and 2013’s Lone Survivor is no different, having been taken from Marcus Luttrell’s autobiographical novel of the same name. The film depicts the efforts of a group of Navy SEALs tasked with a search-and-kill mission.
DARKEST HOUR
The “We shall fight on the beaches” speech was perhaps Winston Churchill’s most prominent public address during the Second World War. The film examines the way Churchill lived his life back in the UK during the war, and the exceptional toll it took on him and the country.
1917
1917 follows the story of two Lance Corporals tasked with delivering an urgent message during WWI, making the perilous journey across no man’s land and German-occupied territory in order to do so.
HACKSAW RIDGE
This film details the true story of Desmond Doss, a pacifist and conscientious objector, who signs up for the American war effort as a medic, with the objective of saving lives and not taking them, refusing to fire a bullet or even hold a gun.
SCHINDLER’S LIST
This film explores the great lengths that industrialist, Nazi party member, and enamelware maker, Oskar Schindler, went to protect over a thousand Jews working at his factory.
GLORY
The 1989 movie starred two of the most prominent Black actors of their respective generations, Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman. Glory is a film that concerns the story of one of the Union Army’s first all-Black regiments, and the prejudicial nature of both sides during the conflict.
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